Annual Report
2007
Co-Directors, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Molly Carnes, Jean Manchester Biddick Professor of Medicine
Dr. Jo Handelsman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Plant
Pathology and Bacteriology, Chair of Bacteriology
Dr. Amy Wendt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
co-Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Jennifer Sheridan, WISELI
April, 2008
Table of Contents
I. Executive Summary: Major Accomplishments in
Year 6 ........................................................................................1
II. Activities: Status of WISELI Initiatives ................2
A. Workshops ..............................................................................................2
B. Grant Programs .....................................................................................3
C. Research & Evaluation Projects ......................................................4
D. Networking Activities ...........................................................................5
E. Dissemination Activities .....................................................................6
III. Changes in WISELI From 2006 to 2007 ...............8
A. Initiatives ..................................................................................................8
B. Personnel .................................................................................................9
C. Funding Sources .................................................................................10
IV. Changes in Status of Women at UW-Madison
from 2006 to 2007 ...............................................................10
A. Hiring .......................................................................................................10
B. Tenure .....................................................................................................11
C. Awards and Honors ............................................................................11
D. Leadership .............................................................................................12
V. WISELI Management and Infrastructure ............12
A. Funding Sources .................................................................................12
B. Personnel ...............................................................................................13
C. Advisory Council .................................................................................13
D. Internal Partners ..................................................................................13
VI. Financial Report..........................................................14
VII. Expected WISELI Directions for 2008...............15
A. Initiatives ................................................................................................15
B. Personnel ...............................................................................................15
C. Funding...................................................................................................15
E. Center Structure ...................................................................................15
VIII. WISELI Publications and Presentations, 200716
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I. Executive Summary: Major Accomplishments in
Year 6
2007 was a year of transition for WISELI. Although our ADVANCE: Institutional
Transformation award was to end in December 2006, we obtained a six-month no-cost extension,
and used the remaining funds to both wrap up evaluation of the ADVANCE project, and begin a
new project that we originally outlined in the ADVANCE: IT proposal but never developed—
workshops for PIs of laboratories. At the end of the no-cost extension period in June 2007, Jo
Handelsman stepped down from her position as WISELI co-Director, in order to accept a new
position as chair of the Bacteriology department. Amy Wendt, Professor of Electrical &
Computer Engineering (and co-Chair of that department) agreed to serve as co-Director of
WISELI in her place. Molly Carnes remains the other co-Director of WISELI.
Other changes in 2007 include a reduction in staff (particularly evaluation staff) due to the end of
the ADVANCE funding; a move to new office space; dissolution of the Leadership Team and
the External Advisory Team; addition of new projects and deletion of old ones; and a new
conceptualization of WISELI’s place in the expanding network of diversity-in-STEM-related
programs at UW-Madison. In addition, dissemination of our hiring workshops outside of the
UW-Madison became a larger part of our activities than we expected. Some of the highlights
from 2007 include:
• For the first time, WISELI was invited into departmental meetings to implement a full
Searching for Excellence & Diversity workshop. This provided an excellent opportunity
to bring issues of diversity to an even wider audience of UW-Madison faculty.
• WISELI piloted a workshop for new PIs entitled Running a Great Lab: Workshops for
Principal Investigators.
• We trained six new faculty members to serve as facilitators for the Enhancing
Department Climate: A Chair’s Role workshops.
• We secured a 20% increase in the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship budget, enabling us to
serve even more faculty in need with this program.
• WISELI embarked on an exit interview study for the entire campus.
• We presented four Implementing Training for Search Committees train-the-trainers-style
workshops at other campuses in 2007.
• WISELI organized the first Symposium in honor of Denice D. Denton, launching what
will become an annual event.
• WISELI moved to a wonderful new location—2107 Mechanical Engineering Building.
As we move into a new period of refining and enhancing our programs and research agenda, we
are excited to take on new initiatives while shedding old programs that were less effective than
we had hoped. WISELI will be reorganizing in 2008, with new opportunities for collaboration
with faculty, staff and students all across campus. It is an exciting time, and we are grateful for
the continued support of the campus—especially the Office of the Provost, the College of
Engineering, and the School of Medicine and Public Health—as we transition from an NSFsupported center to a center with mixed grant and campus support.
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II. Activities: Status of WISELI Initiatives
A. Workshops
Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Workshop for Search
Committee Members
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WISELI continued to implement the Searching for Excellence & Diversity workshops in
2007. In total, this year we have run 11 workshops and trained 97 faculty members, and
153 persons overall, including staff and administrators. This is a marked increase over
the numbers of faculty trained in 2006 (N=57).
o Two departments—Chemistry and Art—requested workshops for their entire
faculty for the first time in 2007. Preliminary feedback indicates that doing a
workshop within a department does facilitate a department-wide discussion of
hiring practices, and does change the diversity of the pool, although the diversity
of final hires does not seem to be affected.
o We have begun using the materials and workshop to train employees who hire
primarily academic staff. We ran a full workshop for a staff unit (University
Health Services), and ran a workshop for the Provost’s Office, inviting people
who primarily chair high-level administrative searches.
o With the departure of Vice Provost Bernice Durand from the Office of the
Provost, WISELI assumed responsibility in 2007 for the campus-wide hiring
workshops for the first time. These workshops included both faculty and
academic staff. We found that the materials do seem to translate well to academic
staff searches.
Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role
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In February through August of 2007, Jo Handelsman and Eve Fine created a workshop to
train interested faculty to be facilitators of the Enhancing Department Climate
workshops, and 6 UW-Madison faculty participated.
A new Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role workshop series was initiated in
Fall of 2007, with one of the new facilitators leading the discussions. Response was
somewhat lower than expected, with five departments participating in the fall session (3
in biological/physical science departments.) Unfortunately, two of the participating
chairs (one in physical science, one in humanities) did not implement the survey portion
of the workshop, so we cannot count their attendance at the meetings as full
“participation” in the workshop.
In 2007, two departments that had participated in previous climate workshops chose to
re-survey their departments.
A faculty member in a department that had previously participated in this workshop filed
an open-records request to obtain a copy of the confidential report of results received by
the department chair. The Chair denied the request, and as a result, the faculty member
filed a lawsuit to obtain the report. As of the end of 2007, this case was still unresolved.
We speculate that this may be dampening not only workshop participation, but also the
willingness of Chairs to perform the department climate survey.
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Running a Great Lab: Workshops for Principal Investigators
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Using the remains of the ADVANCE funding, a postdoctoral scholar (Ainslie Little) was
hired in January 2007 to begin designing a new workshop series for PIs. A design team
was gathered, and a pilot workshop began in Fall 2007, targeting new faculty.
Forty-three faculty were invited to participate in the 8-session pilot workshop series, and
over the course of the pilot 14 faculty attended at least one session, with 8 faculty
participating regularly. Session content included:
o What makes a great lab?
o Getting the most out of your startup package
o Hiring great employees
o Creating a positive lab climate
o How the money works
o Mentoring students and employees
o Professional development
o Nuts and bolts of lab management
Four sessions ran in 2007, with the remaining four in early 2008. At the conclusion of
the entire series, a formative evaluation will be performed, and the workshop series will
be revised before implementation in Fall 2008.
B. Grant Programs
Vilas Life Cycle Professorship Program
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The Vilas Life Cycle Grants continued in 2007, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas
in the amount of $372,000 (an increase of 20% over the 2006 amount). Two rounds of
awards were considered. 19 faculty and staff members applied for the awards, and 11
awards were made.
o Because the applications in 2007 were overwhelmingly fundable, all Vilas funds
were depleted before the third round of applications, and that third round was
therefore canceled.
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Dr. Cecilia Ford stepped down as an evaluator of Vilas applications. She was replaced
by Dr. Jane Zuengler, Professor of English.
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In spring of 2007, an evaluation report was presented to the Trustees of the Vilas Estate.
Such a report will be continued annually to encourage the Trustees to continue funding
the program. This report is available online at:
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/lifecycle/VLCP_Report_2007_External.pdf .
Celebrating Women in Science & Engineering Grant Program
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In 2007, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences began contributing to this
program, increasing the annual budget to $12,000. The College of Engineering, the
College of Letters & Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine, the School of
Medicine & Public Health, and the School of Pharmacy continue to contribute $2,000
annually.
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In 2007, 9 awards were made. Four of these awards went to first-time recipients of the
funds.
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C. Research & Evaluation Projects
Study of Faculty Worklife at UW-Madison
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Dissemination of findings from the 2006 Study of Faculty Worklife continued in 2007.
Results were presented to 5 campus groups and at 4 professional conferences or
meetings. They were also used to produce WISELI’s final summative evaluation report
(http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/FINAL_WISELI_Sum_Eval_Report.
pdf ) and the ADVANCE: IT Final Report for the National Science Foundation (
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/Final_Report_Final.pdf .)
In-Depth Interviews with Women Faculty and Staff in STEM
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Although the interviews and data coding were primarily completed in 2006, analysis
continued into 2007. These data contributed primarily to the Final Summative evaluation
report, and also to a presentation at the American Association of Geographers Annual
meeting.
This research project is complete.
Exit Interview Study
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In late 2006, the Office of the Provost requested that WISELI take over the campus exit
interview process, in order to standardize the interviews across campus. Data collection
began in Fall 2007, with the resulting report due in early 2008.
“Women Speaking Up”: Gender & Discourse
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Dr. Cecilia Ford’s work has culminated in an accepted book contract from
Palgrave/Macmillan for Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace
Meetings. The volume is in press, with an expected release date of mid-2008.
Gendered Interactions in Labs
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Ramona Gunter completed her dissertation using the data gathered for this study in
January 2007. The dissertation is entitled “Laboratory Talk: Gendered Interactions and
Research Progress in Graduate Science Education.”
This research project is complete.
Gender Equity Indicators at UW-Madison
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Jennifer Sheridan continues to collect the data formerly required by the National Science
Foundation, in order to track the status of women at UW-Madison. Margaret Harrigan in
the Office of Academic Planning and Analysis; Eden Inoway-Ronnie in the Office of the
Provost, and Lori Hayward in the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty are instrumental
in the collection and reporting of these data, presented annually in WISELI reports and
on the WISELI website.
A summary of trends in the NSF indicators was produced in 2007
(http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/By_the_Numbers.pdf ).
As the
period of NSF ADVANCE: IT funding is complete, some indicators will be discarded in
the future; see the report for a complete list.
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D. Networking Activities
Listserv
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The WISELI listserv has become a reliable way to communicate with our affiliates.
Other organizations (e.g., the Provost’s Office, the Wisconsin Women in Higher
Education Leadership, CIRTL/DELTA, and others) have been asking us to post notices to
our listserv to further inform our affiliates of events and opportunities. At the end of
December, 2007, we have over 290 affiliates on our listserv.
Website
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The WISELI website is one of our primary dissemination tools, and it has a high number
of visitors. In 2007 we enhanced the website, developing the “WISELI Online
Bookstore.” This secure website allows visitors to order our products either with a credit
card or via an invoice. These updates made the process to order our materials much
clearer and also allows us to track with more precision exactly how many of our products
are ordered by other campuses. The direct link to the “WISELI Online Bookstore” is
https://wisccharge.wisc.edu/wiseli/items.asp , and a visitor can find it from the main
WISELI website easily by clicking on this button:
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Traffic continues to remain high on the WISELI website in 2007. We received around
5,700 hits in 2007, which averages to almost 500 a month. Traffic increases when
ADVANCE grant deadlines approach, or when women in science make national news
(e.g., release of the Beyond Bias and Barriers report in 2006, or the Larry Summers
remarks in 2005). Visitors to our site come mostly from the US (86.4%), but WISELI
gets hits from across the globe. 4.5% of our hits come from Europe (especially Great
Britain and Ireland); 1.9% of our hits are from Asia (India and Hong Kong have the
most); 1.6% from Canada; 1.6% from Australia and New Zealand; 0.6% from the
Middle East (especially Pakistan and Iran); 0.2% are from Mexico and South America
(Mexico and Brazil have the most); and 0.2% are from Eastern Europe (Lithuania and
the Russian Federation account for the most hits in Eastern Europe.) 2.4% of our hits are
from unknown countries.
An important element of our website include our online “library.” The library was
updated in June 2007, and contains over 1,150 entries.
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Denice D. Denton Distinguished Lecture Series
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The Denice D. Denton Memorial Symposium became the first event in the newly-created
Denice D. Denton Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was funded by the Office of
the Chancellor and by the Maria Mitchell Association, and took place on July 29-30,
2007. Over 80 attendees enjoyed a keynote by Donna Shalala and comments from
several of Dr. Denton’s closest friends and colleagues. Outcomes from this event are
posted online at: http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/events/denton_symposium2007.htm .
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Speakers for both 2008 (Dr. Nancy Hopkins) and 2009 (Joan Williams) were secured in
2007.
E. Dissemination Activities
Train the Trainers: Implementing Training for Search Committees
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WISELI continued to offer our Implementing Training for Search Committees workshops
to other campuses in 2007. In addition, we allowed visitors from other campuses to
observe our workshops and consult with us on campus as requested. In 2007, we worked
with:
o University of Wisconsin-Stout. Menomonie, WI. February 28-March 1, 2007.
o Washington University in St. Louis. Medical School and Danforth Campus.
March 5-March 7, 2007.
o Catherine Duckett (Project Manager, Office for the Promotion of Women in
Science, Engineering, and Mathematics). Rutgers University. May 18, 2007.
(Visit to UW-Madison for consultation).
o Deborah Love (Vice President for Institutional Equity) and Anne McCall
(Associate Professor of French and Associate Dean, School for Liberal Arts).
Tulane University. September 7, 2007. (Visit to UW-Madison for consultation).
o University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Whitewater, WI. September 20-21, 2007.
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The materials for these hiring workshops continues to be disseminated at institutions
across the U.S. In 2007, we distributed our brochures and/or hiring guidebooks to 33
institutions, including:
Allegheny College
Michigan State University
Boston University
Mississippi State University
Bristol Community College
(MA)
Ohio State University
University of Iowa
Onondaga Community
College (NY)
Oregon Health and Science
University
University of MarylandBaltimore County
Pennsylvania State University
University of Oklahoma
Purdue University
University of Texas-El Paso
University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Utah State University
Washington University in St.
Louis
Brown University
Children’s Hospital Boston
Community College of
Spokane (WA)
Drexel University
Harper Community College
(IL)
Indiana University
Loyola Marymount University
Marshall University
Rutgers University
Syracuse University
Tulane University
University of Chicago
University of Illinois-Chicago
University of Illinois-Urbana
Champaign
University of Minnesota
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We also distribute hiring workshop materials at conferences; it is unclear which
institutions received the materials in this case. At least 300 copies of the “Bias and
Assumptions” brochure were distributed at the following meetings:
o SET-Routes conference in Heidelberg, Germany in May 2007
o WEPAN conference in Orlando, FL in June 2007
o ASEE conference in Honolulu, HI in June 2007
o American Association of Medical Colleges annual meeting in November 2007
o “National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers”
held at the National Institutes of Health in late November 2007.
Train the Trainers: Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role
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WISELI developed a “Climate Workshop Facilitators’ Training Institute” as a method to
train new facilitators for our Enhancing Department Climate workshop series. We
implemented this training in spring and summer of 2007, and allowed a visitor from the
University of Illinois-Chicago (UI-Chicago) to participate as well, as a means to
disseminate this program to that campus. Linda Siebert Rapoport, Director of the
Women in Science & Engineering System Transformation (WISEST) at UI-Chicago,
attended on April 19, July 19, and August 30, 2007.
WISELI Documentary Videos
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Filming, script writing, and editing for our third and final video was completed in 2007.
The video is available on the Research Channel website:
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=16095&fID=345 .
Course Development
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WISELI co-PI Molly Carnes, in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Pfatteicher (Engineering),
Prof. Trina McMahon (Engineering), and Prof. Teri Balser (CALS) developed a new
course to be available in spring semester 2008. Entitled “Women and Leadership in
Medicine, Science, and Engineering”, it will explore the current scholarship on women’s
leadership in STEM fields. This course will be cross-listed in Soil Science and
Women’s Studies.
Publications & Presentations
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In 2007, WISELI-affiliated researchers published 6 articles in peer-reviewed journals or
conference proceedings. In addition, another four articles are accepted and either in press
or under revision. See Section VIII for a detailed list of 2007 publications and
presentations.
In 2007, WISELI-affiliated researchers presented papers or posters at 3 conferences in
2007 (two were peer-reviewed). See Section VIII for a detailed list.
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Other Dissemination Activities
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Invited Talks. WISELI-affiliated personnel gave at least 16 invited talks in 2007 on
WISELI-related research and/or topics related to women in science. Some talks were at
national funding agencies (NSF, NIH); some were for professional societies (Society for
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, American Association of Geographers); and
some were at other universities (Brown, Minnesota, Utah, Florida). A full list is
available in Section VIII.
Participation on advisory boards. Molly Carnes serves on the Advisory Board for the
ADVANCE programs at University of Illinois-Chicago, and also on the Brown
University ADVANCE advisory board. Jennifer Sheridan has been asked to serve on the
advisory board for the North Dakota State University ADVANCE program if they are
funded in 2008, as well as the START-IT program at the University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse.
Advice/materials to individuals. Over 69 groups or institutions (including some of our
fellow ADVANCE: IT institutions) contacted WISELI in 2007 for advice, to request
materials, or for some other reason pertaining to institutional transformation. The most
common reasons for contact include: Information re: a specific WISELI program or
effort (e.g., climate surveys, hiring workshops, climate workshops, Life Cycle Grants),
request for our brochures or guidebook, administrative help for another ADVANCE
institution, invitations to give a talk, general information useful for women in science
(e.g., where to find the Donna Nelson data, a request for a citation, questions about the
NSF indicators), advice for building an ADVANCE/PAID/START proposal, permission
to use our materials, and more.
III. Changes in WISELI From 2006 to 2007
A. Initiatives
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Hiring workshops. Two new developments in WISELI’s ongoing commitment to
provide workshops for search committees developed in 2007. First, we had requests to
provide department-based workshops for the first time. We ran a 2-session hiring
workshop for the Department of Chemistry, and we ran two, 1-session workshops for the
Art Department. These workshops went well, and we will be closely watching the hiring
outcomes in these departments. One advantage to working with an entire department is
that we have the opportunity to change the conversation because all faculty have been
exposed to the ideas presented in the workshops, rather than relying on just one or two to
deliver the messages. A disadvantage is that the natural sharing of different practices that
occurs in a mixed group does not happen when only attendees from one department are
present, leading to a defensiveness about the process in that department that would be
dissipated if more departments were present.
The second development is that WISELI took over the all-campus workshops in 2007,
with the retirement of Bernice Durand (Vice Provost for Climate and Diversity), who had
previously facilitated the all-campus workshops. We ran four such all-campus
workshops, which were attended by both faculty and staff. The inclusion of academic
staff, and more emphasis on local searches for academic and classified staff, was a
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potential worry to the flow of the workshops. This ended up to not be a problem and in
fact we are encouraged that the material covered in the workshop is applicable to both
faculty/national and staff/local searches.
Climate workshops. With the departure of Jo Handelsman as WISELI co-Director, we
trained new faculty facilitators for the Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s Role
workshops. In 2007, we began our first workshop series with a new facilitator (Denise
Ney), which worked well. More workshops with different facilitators are planned for
2008.
PI workshops. To use the remaining funds from our NSF ADVANCE grant, WISELI
hired Dr. Ainslie Little, a postdoctoral researcher, to convene a design team and assemble
the curriculum for a pilot workshop to train new PIs to manage great labs. The pilot
workshop series began in September 2007, with eight sessions planned for the 2007/08
academic year. At the end of the pilot workshop series, a formative evaluation is
planned.
Website. With the ending of the NSF ADVANCE funding and the beginning of our
PAID award, important changes are needed to the WISELI website to make it even more
useful and accessible. In 2007 we added a new “online bookstore” section, to make it
easier to order WISELI materials such as our brochures, guidebook, and videos.
Customers can use a credit card to order these materials now. The website itself is under
revision to provide direct links to more of our research and evaluation papers, and to
streamline some of the menu options. These updates will continue in 2008 and beyond.
Denice D. Denton Distinguished Lecture Series. Denice D. Denton was an important
figure for women faculty on the UW-Madison campus. During her time here, she
organized women faculty into support groups that still exist today, and which had an
important impact on the ADVANCE grant here at UW-Madison because this core group
of women faculty had already been working on the issues for so long. Upon her death in
2006, several of Dr. Denton’s closest friends formed the “Committee Honoring Denice’s
Memory”, and began raising funds for a student scholarship, and also for an annual
“Denice D. Denton Distinguished Lecture Series.” WISELI will administer the Lecture
Series annually. In 2007 we held our first event, featuring a keynote by Donna Shalala.
See http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/denton/index.htm for more information.
Exit Interview Study. At the request of the Office of the Provost, WISELI has been
commissioned to perform formal exit interviews for all faculty who leave the campus
prior to retirement. Data collection began in 2007, with a final report due in early 2008.
This is expected to be an annual activity for WISELI.
B. Personnel
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Directors. WISELI co-Founder and co-Director Jo Handelsman stepped down in July
2007, at the official end of the NSF ADVANCE grant. She embarked on a new role as
Department Chair of the Bacteriology Department. Dr. Amy Wendt, Professor of
Electrical & Computer Engineering and co-Chair of that department, replaced Dr.
Handelsman. Molly Carnes remains co-Director of WISELI.
Staff. Due to the end of the ADVANCE grant, two evaluators hired just for collecting
summative data ended their appointments: Brenda Parker and Kathy O’Connell. For the
first six months of 2007, WISELI added Aislie Little to our staff, to help develop the PI
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training pilot workshop. Ainslie’s appointment ended in July 2007. Other staffing
(Jennifer Sheridan, Eve Fine, Christine Pribbenow, Deveny Benting, Carol Sobek, Jessica
Winchell) remained the same.
Leadership Team. The WISELI Leadership Team was disbanded at the end of the
ADVANCE grant. A new team (“WISELI Advisory Council” ) will be convened in
2008.
External Advisory Team. The External Advisory Team (EAT) was also disbanded in
2007, at the end of the ADVANCE grant. It is unclear whether WISELI will reconvene
an external advisory team. Rather, an Internal Advisory Committee made up primarily of
campus leaders and administrators will provide oversight for the new WIRED institute
(see below); this Committee will likely replace the WISELI EAT.
C. Funding Sources
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In 2007, WISELI changed from being primarily funded through the NSF ADVANCE
program, to being primarily funded through contributions from campus. NSF grants
currently account for only 37% of the total WISELI budget after the end of the IT grant
in July 2007. Details on funding levels from various units on campus are detailed below,
in Sections V and VI.
IV. Changes in Status of Women at UW-Madison from
2006 to 2007
A. Hiring
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Hiring of women in STEM decreased in 2007. No senior women in biological and
physical sciences were hired—this has not happened since we began tracking new hires.
Furthermore, we found no relationship between hiring of women and participation in
WISELI workshops for first time.
Women as Percentage of New Hires
Percent Female, New Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Biological & Physical Sciences
Biological and Physical Sciences
40.0%
% Women Hires
50%
40%
30.0%
30%
20%
20.0%
37/123
16/50
10%
0%
10.0%
99-00
01-02
00-01
03-04
02-03
Untenured
05-06
04-05
Tenured
07-08
7/37
3/16
06-07
Total
0.0%
Participating
Departments
2006
2004-2006
Non-Participating
Departments
2006
2007
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B. Tenure
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Tenure rates by cohort are equitable by gender, but the numbers of women and men
denied tenure over an 8-year period is unequitable for the Biological Sciences and Social
Studies divisions.
Tenure Outcomes, by Gender
Tenure Outcomes, by Gender
Biological Sciences
Physical Sciences
100.0%
100.0%
95.0%
95.0%
90.0%
90.0%
85.0%
85.0%
80.0%
80.0%
1997-2003 2000-2004 2001-2005 2002-2006 2003-2007
Women
1997-2003 2000-2004 2001-2005 2002-2006 2003-2007
Men
Women
Men
Tenure Outcomes, by Gender
Tenure Outcomes, by Gender
Social Studies
Arts & Humanities
100.0%
100.0%
95.0%
95.0%
90.0%
90.0%
85.0%
85.0%
80.0%
80.0%
1997-2003 2000-2004 2001-2005 2002-2006 2003-2007
Women
Men
1997-2003 2000-2004 2001-2005 2002-2006 2003-2007
Women
Men
C. Awards and Honors
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Overall the percentages of honors and awards (e.g., named professorships) going to
women is slowly increasing over time. However, in 2007, any new named
professorships that were awarded on campus went to women at a much lower rate than in
the past.
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Women as Percentage of Named Professorship Recipients
Women as Percentage of New Named Professorship Recipients
25%
40%
30%
% Women
% Women
20%
15%
10%
20%
10%
5%
0%
0%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
D. Leadership
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The numbers and percentages of women department chairs continues to increase rapidly
in the STEM disciplines.
% Women Department Chairs
Biological & Physical Sciences
25.0%
20.0%
15.0%
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
V. WISELI Management and Infrastructure
A. Funding Sources
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Grants.
o The NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award officially ended on
6/30/2007.
o The NSF PAID award began on 1/1/2007; however, spending was postponed until
7/1/2007. The funds from PAID primarily support Eve Fine, Deveny Benting,
and provide some support for Molly Carnes, Jo Handelsman, and Amy Wendt.
o New grants were applied for in 2007 that would run through WISELI, and support
some of WISELI’s programming. An NSF AGEP (Alliance for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate) proposal was submitted in Fall 2007; co-PIs
included Molly Carnes. In addition, Jennifer Sheridan participated as a co-PI on
an NSF PAID grant, in collaboration with colleagues from the Committee on
Institutional Cooperation (CIC).
Campus Support.
o The Office of the Provost is providing a large amount of funds to the WISELI
program. Funds provide support for 100% of Jennifer Sheridan’s salary. In
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addition, the campus provides $55,000 annually until 2009. These funds support
Deveny Benting, Jessica Winchell, and miscellaneous travel and supply expenses.
o The School of Medicine and Public Health is providing $70,000, renewable
annually. These funds are used to pay the salary of Christine Pribbenow, and
Molly Carnes. $2,000 of the funds are used to support the Celebrating Women in
S&E grant program.
o The College of Engineering is providing $33,922 annually (which includes 25%
of the salary for WISELI grants administrator Carol Sobek), as well as providing
WISELI with excellent new space in the newly-remodeled Mechanical
Engineering Building. These funds are used to pay for supplies and travel for
WISELI employees, and $2,000 is set aside for the Celebrating Women in S&E
grant program.
o The College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, the College of Letters & Science,
the School of Pharmacy, and the School of Veterinary Medicine all provide
$2,000 per year in support of the Celebrating Women in S&E grant program.
Income-Generating Activities.
o Sales of our brochures and guidebooks, and presentation of our hiring workshops
to outside universities, have generated almost $40,000 in additional income for
WISELI in 2007.
B. Personnel
Co-Directors: Molly Carnes, Jo Handelsman (January-June), and Amy Wendt (July-December)
Executive & Research Director: Jennifer Sheridan
Evaluation Director: Christine Maidl Pribbenow
Researcher: Eve Fine
Research Specialist: Deveny Benting
Grants & Contracts Specialist: Carol Sobek
Project Assistant: Jessica Winchell
Graduate Student Interns: Anuschka Neuwald and Vansa Shewakramani
C. Advisory Council
In Development.
D. Internal Partners
In Development.
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VI. Financial Report
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VII. Expected WISELI Directions for 2008
A. Initiatives
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Searching for Excellence & Diversity hiring workshops, Enhancing Department
Climate: A Chair’s Role climate workshops, Vilas Life Cycle Professorships, and
Celebrating Women grants will continue as in the past.
WISELI will continue to offer Implementing Training for Hiring Committees
external workshops as time permits to disseminate knowledge and generate
income.
Planning for 2011 Study of Faculty Worklife survey will begin.
An evaluation plan for the Celebrating Women in Science & Engineering grant
program will be designed.
Running a Great Lab PI workshops will be evaluated and revised, with a changed
series offered in Fall 2009.
Continued monitoring of institutional data.
We expect to apply for at least two grants: NSF I3 (Innovation through
Institutional Integration) and NIH “Research on Causal Factors and Interventions
that Promote and Support the Careers of Women in Biomedical and Behavioral
Research” R01 funding.
B. Personnel
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Christine Pribbenow is expected to move to WCER in 2008. She will retain a
25% appointment with WISELI, until a new evaluation director can be funded.
C. Funding
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Funding levels are expected to remain the same in 2008. We will likely raise our
rates for outside workshops slightly to account for actual costs of providing these
workshops.
E. Center Structure
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WISELI has worked closely with related diversity programs WiscAMP
(Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation), and GERS (Graduate
Engineering Research Scholars), and with the move to new space in the
Mechanical Engineering Building which co-locates these three programs, we are
sharing resources and creating a shared vision of diversity efforts in STEM at
UW-Madison overall. To that end, we are creating a new, umbrella organization
called WIRED in STEM (Wisconsin Institute for Research and Evaluation on
Diversity in STEM) with will encompass WISELI, WiscAMP, GERS (and the
affiliated AGEP program if it is funded), PAID, and any other NSF-funded
diversity programs written by co-PIs Molly Carnes, Doug Henderson, Jennifer
Sheridan, Manuela Romero, and/or Amy Wendt.
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The purpose of WIRED is to support the UW-Madison campus in diversifying the
STEM workforce in terms of gender, race/ethnicity, and disability, by providing
core resources for all programs on campus with a mission to enhance the diversity
of the STEM workforce, including evaluation, web support, and data support.
These core resources will primarily be supported by an NSF I3 grant (Innovation
through Institutional Integration), should it be funded. If I3 is funded, the Center
Status and UDDS that is currently named WISELI will change to WIRED, and
WISELI will be one program within the WIRED umbrella.
VIII. WISELI Publications and Presentations, 2007
Papers Published:
Handelsman, Jo and Robert Birgeneau. September 25, 2007. “Women Advancing
Science: A Few Significant Changes in the Academic System Could Stem the Loss of
Talented Women, Thereby Fortifying our Scientific Leadership.” Technology Review.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/21855/ .
Marchant, Angela; Abhik Bhattacharya; and Molly Carnes. 2007. “Can the Language of
Tenure Criteria Influence Women’s Academic Advancement?” Journal of Women’s
Health. 16(7): 998-1003.
Sheridan, Jennifer; Eve Fine; Jessica Winchell; Christine Maidl Pribbenow; Molly
Carnes; and Jo Handelsman. 2007. “Searching for Excellence & Diversity: Does
Training Faculty Search Committees Improve Hiring of Women?” American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) 2007 Conference Proceedings.
http://www.asee.org/acPapers/AC%202007Full992.pdf . June 2007.
Sheridan, Jennifer; Christine Maidl Pribbenow; Eve Fine; Jo Handelsman; and Molly
Carnes. 2007. “Climate Change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: What
Changed, and Did ADVANCE Have an Impact?” Women in Engineering Programs &
Advocates Network (WEPAN) 2007 Conference Proceedings (on CD-ROM).
http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Dissemina
te&handle=psu.wepan/1200322686&view=body&content-type=pdf_1# . June 2007.
Carnes, Molly and JudyAnn Bigby. 2007. “Jennifer Fever in Academic Medicine.”
Journal of Women’s Health. 16(3):299-301.
Carnes, Molly and Carole Bland. 2007. “A Challenge to Academic Centers and the NIH
to Prevent Unintended Gender Bias in Selection of CTSA Leaders.” Academic Medicine.
82(2):202-206.
Working Papers:
Sheridan, Jennifer; Jo Handelsman; Amy Wendt; and Molly Carnes. 2007. “ADVANCE
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Progress Towards Transforming the College of
Engineering.” Working paper.
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Crone, Wendy. Survive and Thrive: A Self-Assessment Guide for Untenured Faculty.
2007 draft under review/tentative publication agreement. Cambridge University Press.
Pribbenow, Christine Maidl; Jennifer Sheridan; and Deveny Benting. 2007. “Extending
the Tenure Clock: The Experiences of Faculty at One University.”
Dissertations:
Gunter, Ramona. 2007. “Laboratory Talk: Gendered Interactions and Research
Progress in Graduate Science Education.” Doctoral Dissertation: University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Presentations:
Carnes, Molly. November 29, 2007. ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture Series. “UWMadison ADVANCE Program: Did we transform the institution in 5 years?” National
Science Foundation. Washington, DC.
Carnes, Molly. November 27-28, 2007. Chair, NIH National Leadership Workshop on
Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers. National Institutes of Health. Washington,
DC.
Handelsman, Jo. November 15-16, 2007. “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Strategies for an
Equitable Hiring Process.” University of Maryland-Baltimore County. Baltimore, MD.
Mathews, Nancy. November 13, 2007. Invited presentation, “Balancing Work and Life
in the Academy in the 21st Century: A Changing Paradigm for Women?” 28th Annual
meeting of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Milwaukee, WI.
Carnes, Molly. November 4, 2007. Panelist, “Women’s Academic Advancement: The
Influence of Language.” Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting.
Washington, DC.
Sheridan, Jennifer; Eve Fine; Jessica Winchell; Christine Maidl Pribbenow; Molly
Carnes; and Jo Handelsman. June, 2007. “Searching for Excellence & Diversity: Does
Training Faculty Search Committees Improve Hiring of Women?” American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Meetings. Honolulu, HI.
Sheridan, Jennifer. June, 2007. Moderator, “Climate Surveys Panel.” 6th Annual NSF
ADVANCE PI Meeting. National Science Foundation. Washington, DC.
Sheridan, Jennifer; Christine Maidl Pribbenow; Eve Fine; Jo Handelsman; and Molly
Carnes. June 2007. “Climate Change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: What
Changed, and Did ADVANCE Have an Impact?” Women in Engineering Programs &
Advocates Network (WEPAN) 2007 Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL.
Carnes, Molly. May 23-25, 2007. “Women in Academic Medicine: Institutional
Transformation Required” (Whittington Lecturer) and “Careers in Academic Medicine:
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Evaluation at Gatekeeping Junctions” (Medical Grand Rounds). University of Florida.
Gainsville, FL.
Carnes, Molly. May 2-3, 2007. “NIH Director's Pioneer Award: Lesson in Scientific
Review” and “Workshop: Lessons Learned in Shaping a Career” (Invited speaker).
Brown University. Providence, RI.
Parker, Brenda. April 19, 2007. “NSF ADVANCE: Lessons for Geography
Departments” (Panelist). American Association of Geographers Annual Meetings. San
Francisco, CA.
Carnes, Molly and Jennifer Sheridan. April 11-12, 2007. “Overview of WISELI:
Lessons Learned” and “Overview of WISELI: New Initiatives at UW-Madison” (Invited
speakers). University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.
Sheridan, Jennifer. March 27, 2007. “WISELI: Improve Departmental Climate for
Women Faculty and Faculty of Color” (Poster). Showcase 2007. University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
Carnes, Molly. March 21-22, 2007. “Careers in Academic Medicine: Evaluation at
Gatekeeping Junctures” (Medical Grand Rounds) and “Women Leaders in Academic
Health Sciences: Institutional Transformation Required” (Invited speaker). University of
Utah. Salt Lake City, UT.
Carnes, Molly. March 14, 2007. “Bias in Scientific Review: The Case of the NIH
Directors Pioneer Award.” Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
Training Seminar. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
Carnes, Molly. February 22, 2007. “Words Matter: How Language Can Promote the
Activation of Stereotypes” (Invited speaker). University of Illinois-Chicago. Chicago,
IL.
Carnes, Molly. February 21, 2007. “Gender Bias in Scientific Review” (Invited
speaker). Medical College of Wisconsin. Milwaukee, WI.
Sheridan, Jennifer. January 30, 2007. “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the
Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.” Center for Demography &
Ecology Training Seminar. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI.
Sheridan, Jennifer. January 17, 2007. “Beyond Bias and Barriers.” Zonta International.
Madison, WI.
Campus Visits/Dissemination of Programming:
“Searching for Excellence & Diversity” workshop, and “Implementing Workshops for
Search Committees” workshop. September 20-21, 2007. University of WisconsinWhitewater. Whitewater, WI.
Meet for information re: implementing Searching for Excellence & Diversity workshops.
September 7, 2007. Deborah Love (Vice President for Institutional Equity) and Anne
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McCall (Associate Professor of French and Associate Dean, School for Liberal Arts).
Tulane University.
Meet for information re: ADVANCE. May 18, 2007. Catherine Duckett (Project
Manager, Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and
Mathematics). Rutgers University.
Meet for information re: ADVANCE institutionalization. May 29, 2007. Trish KalbasSchmidt (Program Leader, ADVANCE). Utah State University.
Meet for information re: ADVANCE. April 11-12, 2007. Molly Carnes and Jennifer
Sheridan travel to Institute of Technology, hosted by Roberta Humphries (Professor of
Astronomy and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs). University of Minnesota.
Participation in training for facilitators for Enhancing Department Climate: A Chair’s
Role workshop. April 19, July 19, and August 30, 2007. Linda Siebert Rapoport
(Director, Women in Science & Engineering System Transformation). University of
Illinois-Chicago.
“Implementing Workshops for Search Committees.” A train-the-trainer workshop for
campuses wanting to implement training for faculty search committee chairs. March 5March 7, 2007. Medical School and Danforth Campus. Washington University in St.
Louis.
“Searching for Excellence & Diversity” workshop, and “Implementing Workshops for
Search Committees” workshop. February 28-March 1, 2007. University of WisconsinStout.
WISELI in the Press:
“Help Women Stay in Science: A Female Scientist Gives Her Top 10 List of Tips for
Her Male Colleagues—What Are Yours?” The Scientist.com. September 27, 2007.
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53655/ .
Products Available to the Public:
“WISELI: FORWARD with Institutional Transformation.” Documentary Video, third in
series of three. Available online through The Research Channel:
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.aspx?rID=16095&fID=345 .
“Reviewing Applicants: Research on Bias and Assumptions.” 2nd Edition. Brochure
available online at:
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/hiring/BiasBrochure_2ndEd.pdf , and also available
in large quantities for 254/brochure plus mailing costs by contacting at
https://wisccharge.wisc.edu/wiseli/items.asp .
Reports to Funding Agencies:
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Sheridan, Jennifer; Molly Carnes, Jo Handelsman, and Amy Wendt. December 2007.
“Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Annual Report 2007.”
Sheridan, Jennifer; Molly Carnes and Jo Handelsman. September 2007. “Final Report of
the ADVANCE Program for University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2002-2007.”
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/Final_Report_Final.pdf .
Grant Proposals in Support of WISELI:
NSF Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) program.
“ADVANCE Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination.” PI:
Jennifer Sheridan. Co-PIs: Molly Carnes, Jo Handelsman, Amy Wendt. Submitted
January 27, 2006. Funded 1/1/07 – 12/31/09.
Evaluation Reports:
Sheridan, Jennifer; Molly Carnes and Jo Handelsman. September 2007. “Final Report of
the ADVANCE Program for University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2002-2007.”
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/Final_Report_Final.pdf .
Pribbenow, Christine Maidl; Jennifer Sheridan; Brenda Parker; Jessica Winchell; Deveny
Benting; Kathy O’Connell; Cecilia Ford; Ramona Gunther; and Amy Stambach. July
2007. “Summative Evaluation Report of WISELI: The Women in Science and
Engineering Leadership Institute.”
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/FINAL_WISELI_Sum_Eval_Report.p
df .
Sheridan, Jennifer. May 2007. “Gender Equity By The Numbers: Status of Women in
Biological & Physical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002-2006.”
http://wiseli.engr.wisc.edu/initiatives/researcheval/By_the_Numbers.pdf .
Pribbenow, Christine Maidl and Jennifer Sheridan. April 2007. “Evaluation of the Vilas
Life Cycle Professorships Program.”
Benting, Deveny. March 29, 2007. “Evaluation of the Workshop: ‘Implementing
Training for Search Committees’. Presented to the Washington University Medical
School on March 5, 2007.”
Benting, Deveny. March 28, 2007. “Evaluation of the Workshop: ‘Implementing
Training for Search Committees’. Presented to the Washington University Danforth
Campus on March 6, 2007.”
Benting, Deveny. March 26, 2007. “Evaluation of ‘Searching for Excellence and
Diversity: A Workshop for Search Committees’. Presented at UW-Stout on March 1,
2007.”
Sheridan, Jennifer. February 8, 2007. “Climate Change for Faculty at UW-Madison:
Evidence from the 2003 and 2006 Study of Faculty Worklife.” Report prepared for the
Campus Diversity Plan Oversight Committee.
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Presentations of WISELI Activities to Campus Groups
Deans’ Council—5/9/2007
College of Engineering (CoE) Academic Affairs—10/11/2007
Plan 2008 Campus Resource Fair/Diversity Forum—9/28/2007
Showcase—3/27/2007
Provost Department Chair Training—8/30/2007
Campus Diversity Plan Oversight Committee—2/8/2007
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Program Committee—3/26/2007
SMPH Committee on Academic Staff Issues—5/15/2007
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